Sentence examples for single combat from inspiring English sources

I may volunteer for single combat myself.

It was called "single combat".

The details of single combat were different.

What was this single combat stuff — they didn't use the actual term — really all about?

His intellectual life could be viewed as a long single combat with shapeshifting untruth.

Menelaus would have defeated Paris in single combat, but Aphrodite rescued him, and the war continued.

And of course, the famous Battle of the Trident, during which Robert slew Rhaegar in single combat.

They kill each other in single combat, leaving their uncle, Creon (Jocasta's brother), to take over as king.

To rule means knowing how to win not just in public but in camera, and in single combat.

FOR the jazz pianist, unaccompanied solo playing is the musical equivalent of single combat: no bass, no drums, just one mind, two hands and 88 keys.

Perhaps most regrettable is the absence of a memorable scene of single combat like the decisive duel between Flynn and Basil Rathbone that ends the 1938 film.